Thanks shooz as for your personal emotions and what made you focus on the world and this movement - What kind of world are you scared of? Are you worried your family will suffer - that your kids won't have a future that you would want them to live? Who do you feel bad or fear for? Who do you care about?

It has ceased to be very important, but that's due to my bias. I saw it as a kind of Civil Rights movement for economic equality. It's leadership feels the current system of government is beyond hope and has no desire to attempt to change it from within. Protest alone can only do so much, then it gets repetitive and no one pay attention.

You did it - OCCUPY got the world's attention - now show them what we're really about and what we think they're up against and why we care about them and fear for their futures. no more discourse... just demonstration

Occupy is important to me because I'd like to try leave this country at least as good as I "found" it and possibly a little better.

For the 1st month of the movement I watched and waited to see what this movement might be. What I observed was an energy - a "vibe", to use an old timey expression, and the air of possibilities for a future that is better than the present. I saw the germ of an idea begin to grow into something that has great power and great value. It hasn't always been nor will it be easy. In fact it's been nearly the opposite.

There are quite a lot of growing pains being experienced within this movement. We should remember that while there is disagreement over the best process for moving forward and achieving our collective goals, we'd all do well to bear in mind always that we all have commonality of purpose and that is something that we can all take and hold onto. We are united in our dedication to the idea that we can create the possibility of positive change that the country and, dare I say, even the world needs. I believe that for all of us, this is why Occupy is so very important.

I agree - I posted mean words to the movement at one point - I got sick of all the back and forth and speculating and problem solving - then I got mad at the wealthy but I suddenly remembered what this movement is - we are all here because we care so much about the world. It is people with empathy and compassion caring for those without a voice, caring for our families future's, caring for the generations to come. We just aren't able to forget or turn our backs or go on living until everyone else can stop and realize what will happen if we don't succeed. This movement has to be about the 99 percent it has to demonstrate the discrepancy and how terrible it is that in a world of so much abundance - only 1 percent are hording all of it and using the rest of us as slaves to their way of existence... that of our time it will be said that we cared about this and others and we took protest and a stand to put balance back into the world. We will not be a part, we will not close our eyes - we will shift it together.

I was where you are a few weeks ago see my prev post "class warfare bring it on bitches" - but I have to say the one percent have drawn us in and we forgot why we're here - it's not about them - it's about people like this http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRutoDtIBpWXIWx8VEHFRnXaTsLhO6ybTE-bAMnkI_2w4COMfbS please don't forget ...........let's not focus on the one percent let's remember why we are fighting 1percent isn't worth our time 99 percent is!

Elf, you're starting to get it right. Don't focus on the 1%. Whether they have 15% or 20% of the world's wealth, the rest of the people have the other 80%-85%! Just like my old coaches used to say before games, "Just win your own individual battle and beating the other team will come naturally as a result". You can win your own personal battle by concentrating your resources where they do the most good. Start a competing local business and take a small hunk out of corporate America's hide. Don't bank with the big boys, don't enslave yourself to credit, buy American and local if possible, etc. There are a thousand things each person can do individually to help change things. Freedom is the key, though. The best results, the happiest endings, come from acts that are done willingly, not as a result of one side or the other mandating or legislating something, from people saying "it's for their own good", or "it's in their own best interest". That just leads to massive resentment, blowback, and unintended consequences.

Don't worry , we are not, thank god, Communist China. Some liberals were wishing that we were so that they could be dictators for a week and push through all of the crap ideas that they had. But we will never be China.